She bought a pair of stockings at a drapery store. The next day she returned to the shop and said to the _ assistant: “These stockings I bought yesterday had a ladder in them.” “Well, madam,” answered the assistant, “what do you expect for eighteenpence—a marble staircase?”
A young boy, undergoing an examination for a position, came across the question: “What is the distance of the earth from the sun?” He wrote his answer as follows: “I am unable to state accurately, but I don’t believe the sun is near enough to interfere with a proper performance of my duties if I get this clerkship.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1938, Page 8
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